[78-L] Timely Tune find

Wed May 18 12:03:22 PDT 2011

Suddenly, the only Timley Tunes in my collection, cracked badly, but
playable on one side looks like an auction posting. WhoWouldaThot?

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On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:00 PM, <78-l-request at klickitat.78online.com>wrote:

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>   1. Re:  Frederick Tussey Timely Tunes (Steve Williams)
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>   3. Re:  ARSC conference proceedings (Michael Biel)
>   4.  Timely Tunes (Glenn Longwell)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:10:47 -0400
> From: "Steve Williams" <jazzhunter at collector.org>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Frederick Tussey Timely Tunes
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> That's the one record I would have bid on also.  Congratulations!  Sounds
> like it was less terrible than it might have been, - and alternate
> takes.......
>
> ..Steve Williams  ..
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:50:14 -0700
> From: Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com>
> Subject: [78-L] Frederick Tussey
> To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
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> Just got the Timely Tunes 78 that I won from Frederick Tussey on eBay (by
> King's Hawaiians, a pseudonym for (King) Bennie Nawahi - It was described
> as
> being in "VG" condition, but was sold "as is". I took a calculated risk on
> this record, so I am not going to return it, but both sides are closer to
> G.
> Heavy graying of grooves with surface-noise-to-music ratio being about
> 60/40. Just a word to the wise to anyone interested in bidding on his
> records. He either overgrades or - and I believe the latter is the case -
> he
> doesn't know the first thing about grading (or spelling, I might add),
> which
> is why he couches his descriptions in all kinds of caveats. I'm not
> returning the record because, as Malcolm informed me, both sides are
> alternate takes available only on TT. I have the first takes on a
> Montgomery
> Ward in E condition, so I'm fine with having this one, even at the price I
> paid for a record several grades below how it was described.
>
> His packing, incidentally, was excellent.
>
> Cary Ginell
>
>
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 10:39:57 -0700
> From: Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Frederick Tussey Timely Tunes
> To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
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> After running it through an equalizer, it's actually not so bad. No
> distortion, just surface wear. And you can't quibble about any Timely Tunes
> acquisition, because it's not likely to turn up again anytime soon.
>
> Cary Ginell
>
> > From: jazzhunter at collector.org
> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:10:47 -0400
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Frederick Tussey Timely Tunes
> >
> > That's the one record I would have bid on also.  Congratulations!  Sounds
> > like it was less terrible than it might have been, - and alternate
> > takes.......
> >
> > ..Steve Williams  ..
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:50:14 -0700
> > From: Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com>
> > Subject: [78-L] Frederick Tussey
> > To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> > Message-ID: <BLU142-W23D68DAC50FC4A2DB7C940B08C0 at phx.gbl>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> >
> > Just got the Timely Tunes 78 that I won from Frederick Tussey on eBay (by
> > King's Hawaiians, a pseudonym for (King) Bennie Nawahi - It was described
> as
> > being in "VG" condition, but was sold "as is". I took a calculated risk
> on
> > this record, so I am not going to return it, but both sides are closer to
> G.
> > Heavy graying of grooves with surface-noise-to-music ratio being about
> > 60/40. Just a word to the wise to anyone interested in bidding on his
> > records. He either overgrades or - and I believe the latter is the case -
> he
> > doesn't know the first thing about grading (or spelling, I might add),
> which
> > is why he couches his descriptions in all kinds of caveats. I'm not
> > returning the record because, as Malcolm informed me, both sides are
> > alternate takes available only on TT. I have the first takes on a
> Montgomery
> > Ward in E condition, so I'm fine with having this one, even at the price
> I
> > paid for a record several grades below how it was described.
> >
> > His packing, incidentally, was excellent.
> >
> > Cary Ginell
> >
> >
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:49:17 -0400
> From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] ARSC conference proceedings
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> On 5/17/2011 10:54 PM, Steve Ramm wrote:
> > Mike: traditionally they are available on the web site by September. And
> only those where permission was received from the speaker.
> >
> > Steve
> This year the clearances were built into the agreement to do the
> presentation, so ALL should be pre-cleared for distribution.
>
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
> >
> >> From: mikedaley at gmail.com
> >> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 14:29:08 -0400
> >> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> >> Subject: [78-L] ARSC conference proceedings
> >>
> >> Does anyone know if recordings/texts of the presentations will be
> available online at any point?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Mike Daley
> >>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 11:18:57 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Glenn Longwell <glongwell at snet.net>
> Subject: [78-L] Timely Tunes
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> I know they don't turn up that often but are they really that rare? Do we
> know what sort of pressing runs were done with these before RCA killed it?
>
> My only Timely Tunes came in an ebay win where the seller was selling off a
> lot of probably a dozen discs and a Jim New Timely Tunes disc was in there.?
> Unfortunately it was cracked but playable.? Technically, with average per
> record it was less than $2.
>
> Glenn
>
> --- On Wed, 5/18/11, Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com> wrote:
>
> From: Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Frederick Tussey Timely Tunes
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 1:39 PM
>
>
> After running it through an equalizer, it's actually not so bad. No
> distortion, just surface wear. And you can't quibble about any Timely Tunes
> acquisition, because it's not likely to turn up again anytime soon.
>
> Cary Ginell
>
> > From: jazzhunter at collector.org
> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:10:47 -0400
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Frederick Tussey Timely Tunes
> >
> > That's the one record I would have bid on also.? Congratulations!? Sounds
> > like it was less terrible than it might have been, - and alternate
> > takes.......
> >
> > ..Steve Williams? ..
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:50:14 -0700
> > From: Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com>
> > Subject: [78-L] Frederick Tussey
> > To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> > Message-ID: <BLU142-W23D68DAC50FC4A2DB7C940B08C0 at phx.gbl>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> >
> > Just got the Timely Tunes 78 that I won from Frederick Tussey on eBay (by
> > King's Hawaiians, a pseudonym for (King) Bennie Nawahi - It was described
> as
> > being in "VG" condition, but was sold "as is". I took a calculated risk
> on
> > this record, so I am not going to return it, but both sides are closer to
> G.
> > Heavy graying of grooves with surface-noise-to-music ratio being about
> > 60/40. Just a word to the wise to anyone interested in bidding on his
> > records. He either overgrades or - and I believe the latter is the case -
> he
> > doesn't know the first thing about grading (or spelling, I might add),
> which
> > is why he couches his descriptions in all kinds of caveats. I'm not
> > returning the record because, as Malcolm informed me, both sides are
> > alternate takes available only on TT. I have the first takes on a
> Montgomery
> > Ward in E condition, so I'm fine with having this one, even at the price
> I
> > paid for a record several grades below how it was described.
> >
> > His packing, incidentally, was excellent.
> >
> > Cary Ginell
> >? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ???
> >
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